An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
ABERJHANIWar poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts.
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And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be ‘at risk’ of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.
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Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
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A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,
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Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one’s total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.
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They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.
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This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.
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Until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.
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